Hematological profiles of healthy elderly people differ significantly between men and women and the erythrocytic, leukopoietic and thrombopoietic components which explain the differences across a range of blood cell counts are also sex-specific.

Factors affecting quality of life in child and adolescent patients in Thailand with thalassemia include young age, severe disease, low pre-transfusion hemoglobin levels and receiving a recent blood transfusion or iron chelation therapy.

Religious organizations and leaders that disseminate health education throughout communities at risk can improve awareness and subsequent outcome of conditions such as hemoglobinopathies within ethnic minority populations.

Benign neutropenia, a naturally low white blood cell count without increased infection risk, is prevalent in Arab people and should be considered when assessing haematological variables in this population.

Prior occurrence of vaso-occlusive crisis and development of renal failure are associated with a higher risk of readmission to hospital in people with sickle cell disease, although different statistical methodologies suggest there are other individual factors to be considered.

Giving flu jabs subcutaneously to patients on oral anticoagulants was thought to be safer than an injection into muscle, but a randomized trial shows no more hemorrhagic events following intramuscular injections and fewer local reactions.

Unlike previous reports, a case-control study based on a record linkage design found no significant association between the risk of childhood leukemia and maternal social class, marital status, urban status, or parental age.